fairy tales

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Cinderella

1978
A mistreated kitchen maid, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends the palace ball on the condition that she leave before midnight.

The three billy goats Gruff

1973
Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

Beauty and the beast

1989
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Rapunzel

1995
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by an ancient fairy.

A frog prince

1989
Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate.

The steadfast tin soldier

1992
After being accidentally launched on a dangerous and terrible voyage, a one-legged soldier finds his way back to his true love--a paper dancing girl.

The ugly duckling

1965
An ugly duckling is scorned by everyone because he is different, but after a lonely winter he discovers he has grown into a beautiful swan.

The princess and the pea

1978
A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

Rapunzel, the one with all the hair

2006
Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck, conditions change for them both.
Cover image of Rapunzel, the one with all the hair

Beauty and the beast

2006
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
Cover image of Beauty and the beast

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